Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Peruse art and enjoy food and drink specials at dozens of venues (including free dessert at Metro Kathmandu!), as part of the Divisadero Art Walk. 6 p.m. // Divisadero Street (from Haight
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: It's another titillating night of the SF Sex Worker Fest. Army of Lovers presents Formerly Known As, a two day festival of performance, art and video by male sex workers. Flavorpill tells
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: It's the closing weekend of Boleros for the Disenchanted, written by The Motorcycle Diaries screenwriter José Rivera, which is a love story set in Puerto Rico that spans several generations and is
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts concludes its 2008-2009 season with Nick Cave Soundsuits Collaboration, which combines the movement of New York-based choreographer Ronald K. Brown and the shimmering Soundsuits of Chicago-based
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: In celebration of Harvey Milk's birthday this past Friday, the Castro is screening both Rob Epstein’s Academy Award-winning 1984 documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk and Gus Van Zant's feature film
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Sarah Applebaum's Soft Core exhibit features her technicolor costumes, paintings, installations and fabric work, which were aptly described by SF Weekly as "visual LSD." Check out Fecal Face's recent visit to Applebaum's
Arts & Entertainment Varnish Fine Art's Eminent Domain Farewell, 6/5 Due to the erection of the new Transbay Terminal, Varnish Fine Art will be smashed to smithereens. Alas. Varnish Gallery, for those of you who don't know, is fantastic. The downtown wine bar/
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: StageWright presents Beatboxing Beasts & Cafeteria Feasts, in which fifth graders from Starr King Elementary School have written six original plays inspired by works of visual art at the de Young Museum.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery presents On Your Mark, featuring Bay Area artist Leslie Shows, courtesy of Jack Hanley Gallery. Small bites and cocktails have been donated by local Bay Area
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Guest curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present Slapstick Follies (and Other Fine Messes). The line-up will features shorts and a few silent films, including the rarely seen or screened Down Memory
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SCIENCE: At the monthly Ask a Scientist series, Dreamworks engineers will walk the audience through the building blocks of a CG animated project, explaining the science and math behind the transformation of tiny
misc What Should Replace Crouching Spider? Louise Bourgeois' bronze spider sculpture is leaving the Embarcadero at Pier 14, ready to nest in Houston where it will be part of a private collection. Aw. While there's no word yet if
Arts & Entertainment Photos: PostSecret Show at Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek We're sorry, dear readers, the PostSecret exhibition at Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek totally fell under our radar until today. The show has been up since March 1, and it ends tomorrow, April
Arts & Entertainment What Happened to the SNIFF Paintings? by Lisa Hix The beauty and frustration of the art of tagging is how completely democratic it is. In the world of graffiti, art is temporary, and whoever can put down a few
Arts & Entertainment Buy This: <em>San Francisco Street Art</em> by Lisa Hix Photographer Steve Rotman, with the help of designer and photographer Chris Brennan, have put together a whole book of these awesome public artworks, San Francisco Street Art, which was just
SF News California Returns Paintings Stolen by Nazis to Oppenheimer Family Yesterday in Sacramento, the State of California returned three paintings to the heirs of Jakob and Rosa Oppenheimer, which were recently discovered to have been the subject of a “judenauktionen,” a coerced sale
misc Bumblebee Strikes SF Bumblebee, a Los Angeles-based artist, has been turning abandoned telephone booths into works of art. After a recent trip to San Francisco, he struck one booth on Minna, above. Here's how Bumblebee explains
Arts & Entertainment First Thursday Spotlight: <em>Kin</em> - Works on Paper by Dana Harel It's that time of the month again when the art kids come out in force to drink free wine and hit up as many gallery openings as they can before 9. We here
misc Photo du Jour 377 This image has been up on Mission Mission for over a week. But if you haven't seen these little fellas yet, check them out. (They also popped up on Folsom Street, near that
Arts & Entertainment Call for Entries: Fourth Annual ATA Film & Video Festival Since most of you peeled the yellow wallpaper after American Apparel dared to open shop on Valencia Street, it's payback time. Artists Television Access is inviting experimental film and video artists to submit
Arts & Entertainment The Murals of San Francisco In a city boasting oversized weapons of love and Ionic Breezes masquerading as apartment buildings, the shockingly vibrant murals of San Francisco are part of what makes San Francisco's art scene special. Flickr
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Launches "Art in the Atrium: Kerry James Marshall," Free to the Public For the next year, patrons and passersby can enjoy Kerry James Marshall's monumental mural exhibit in SFMOMA's Evelyn and Walter Haas Atrium. Marshall depicts the rarely represented slaves who inhabited Monticello and Mount
misc Cheap Pete's Will Do Your Noise Pop Posters Right Instead of letting your collectible Noise Pop poster fade in the corner for a year, like we did, head on over to Cheap Pete's for a "quick fit" to last a lifetime. This
Arts & Entertainment "Bluerain" Be sure to check out "Bluerain" before it leaves this Sunday for the London School of Economics Library. What is it, you ask? Well, aside from being totally awesome, it's an art installation
SF News Berkeley's New Sculpture Includes Dogs Pooping, Fornicating, and Butt-sniffing Last year Berkeley paid realist artist Scott Donahue "$196,000 to install two sculptural groups at either end of a new pedestrian bridge across the freeway on the city’s waterfront." Donahue came
